Tokyo, March 25. international contest for the supremacy of the Pacific among Wapeh, the United States, Britain (with France and the aš adjuncts) and Soviet Russia is interestingly review-recent issue of the "Jikyoku Jeho" (Current Events), by the Tokyo "Nichinichi."
The writer describes Japan, in the northwest corner of the as hemmed in on all sides by the other countries mention-are her potential enemies, yet she is inflexibly determined position and fulfil the mission assigned to her by of the Pacific, to establish a new order in East Asia and ut peace in the Pacific. ed in her military arrangements a defensive attitude eastward (toward the Atlantic) and an offensive attitude westward (toward the Pacific), mhd has been making great efforts to equip herself for operations in the Pacific.
U.S. Political Ideology According to her political ideology America regards the racial development of the so-called totalitarian ations' group, in which she includes Jepan, Germany and Italy, as a menace to democracy. She is, therefore, preparing for war, as can well be understood from President Roose-Vel's messages th Congress and the Contents of her budget which pro-Vide for a large incréese of her armaments.
Certainly the importance of the Pacific from the military standpoint tàn easily be seen by looking at the map. Starting in the north with the Aleutian Islands, American naval bases include Kiska, Unalaska, Sitka, Kodiak, Puget Sound, Tongue Point (Oregon), Alamenda and San Diego bh the coast, while westward are Hawaii, Midway, Wake, Guam and the Philippines. will give up these bases when the Philippines become independent in 1946.
Some people in the United States still labour under the misapprehension that Japan will encroach upon this territory when it becomes independent, and urge postponement of independence or that the naval bases there should not be abandoned.
If America retains this military foothold in the Far East it can be foreseen that the Philippines will give birth to some difficult problems in the future.
Hawaii is the main line for defence and base for advance in the Pacific of the American maw. It was annexed at the outbreak of the Spanish-American War, chiefly for strategical purposes.
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